From broke to ballin'
SMU Alum Wim Bens pours a beer at Lakewood Brewing Co. headquarters. (Eric Sheffield / The Daily Campus)
A room full of large, metallic tanks. A sweet, yet strangely, bitter smell. The sound of dense liquids swishing back and forth in a routine motion. A laboratory, perhaps?
Not exactly.
The large tanks are mash-tons and brew kettles. The aroma is a mix of hops, yeast and malted barley. And the dense liquid? That’s beer. Lakewood Brewery beer.
“We brew beer,” Wim Bens, president and owner of Lakewood Brewery said, “and what a lot of people don’t know is that brewing is a blend of art and